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What is the type of relationship KE and PE have?
You now know that potential energy is position relative, and kinetic energy is motion relative. The primary relationship between the two is their ability to transform into each other. In other words, potential energy transforms into kinetic energy, and kinetic energy converts into potential energy, and then back again.
Is falling kinetic energy?
Object Falling from Rest As an object falls from rest, its gravitational potential energy is converted to kinetic energy. Conservation of energy as a tool permits the calculation of the velocity just before it hits the surface. K.E. = J, which is of course equal to its initial potential energy.
How do you calculate the weight of a falling object?
An object in free fall will still have a weight, governed by the equation W = mg , where W is the object’s weight, m is the object’s mass, and g is the acceleration due to gravity.
What is the potential energy if a body of mass 250 kg is at a height of 30 meters?
Answer: 7500 is the answer of this question….
What happens to potential energy when mass is double the height?
An object which is not raised above the ground will have a height of zero and therefore zero potential energy. When you double the mass or the height of an object, its potential energy will also double.
What is the kinetic energy of 10 kg?
For example, if a an object with a mass of 10 kg (m = 10 kg) is moving at a velocity of 5 meters per second (v = 5 m/s), the kinetic energy is equal to 125 Joules, or (1/2 * 10 kg) * 5 m/s 2.
How do you find the Pepe of a gravitational force?
PE grav. = m * h * g. Where: m – mass; h – height; g – the gravitational field strength (9.81 on Earth) The formula is relatively simple. An object which is not raised above the ground will have a height of zero and therefore zero potential energy. When you double the mass or the height of an object, its potential energy will also double.
What is the potential energy of a body of 1 kg?
The potential energy of a body of mass 1 kg kept at a height of 1m is 1J. Q21. What happens to the potential energy of a body when its height is doubled? Potential energy is directly proportional to the height. Therefore, when the height is doubled, potential energy also gets doubled.